Municipal traffic engineering and public works departments across the country are responsible for managing public speeding complaints. Public speeding complaints are all too often invalid citizen complaints that consume staff time and outsourced traffic counts data collection projects.
With Insights, you can quickly implement a speed program to give you 85th Percentile speeds on every roadway within your community, every single month, every single day.
This article helps you understand how to review your community, search for specific roads to respond faster, and save reports for analysis pre and post traffic calming implementation.
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TL;DR: 9 Steps to Review Speeds
Sign in to your Urban SDK account
Select Insights from the left hand navigation
Select your community boundary
Choose your county or a specific census tract
Select the month of the complaint or the most recent month
Search for a road name or click a road segment
Review the Traffic Speed Link Report
Determine if the reported speeds require action
Save your report to Workspace to post traffic calming implementation analysis
Here's a short video guide to respond to speeding complaints in 44 seconds
Sign in to your Urban SDK account
To access Insights, you must login and click to your organizational account.
Select your Organization from the dropdown
Select Insights
Once on your home screen then select Insights from the left hand menu navigation.
Select Insights from the left hand navigation (https://portal.urbansdk.com/insights)
Insights are built by completing a 3 step form to review monthly reports.
Insights requires you to complete a 3 step form to review monthly reports.
Steps to Respond to a Complaint
Step 1. Select your community boundary
Once in Insights, you'll either have your city or county your custom boundary that has been created by Urban SDK.
Step 2. Choose your county or a specific census tract
Selecting the County will display all roads in the county.
Selecting the Census Tract, will allow you to view roads in specific census tracts.
Hover over the census tracts on the map to select the correct census tract.
Step 3. Select one month
You account will have 13 months of historical traffic speed data.
You can only select one month per report, but can change the month in the report.
Select the complaint, the most recent month, or any month after traffic calming.
Step 4. Build Report
The form allows you to review your request prior to loading the map.
Select Build Report to complete the form.
Step 5. Review Monthly Report
Once the map loads you can review traffic speed data by searching for a specific location or just selecting any road on the map.
You can search for a specific road name or address in the search bar.
Or you can click on any road to load the link report.
Step 6. Select the Road
When you click on a road, it will open the Traffic Speed Link Report.
The report is specific to the selected road segment.
You can open this report as many times as you need.
Step 7. Review the Traffic Speed Link Report
The Traffic Speed Link Report will provide several metrics to help you determine if the reported speeds require action.
Review the Traffic Speed Data Specification for more information on the speed data attributes available in the report.
Step 8. Save the Report
You can save any report to your Workspace.
Any member of the organization can also access reports saved to the Workspace.
You can re-open reports from Workspace to change the month for post traffic calming implementation analysis.
Editing Date Range by Month
Once your report is open, you can change the reported month.
To change the month, select the filter icon and then select a different month.
The report will load traffic speed data from the selected month.
Your account will have access to a minimum of 13 months of historic data.
Download Traffic Speed Data & Charts
You can export the report charts and traffic speed data file from any report.
To export report files:
Select the "Options" ellipsis (three dots) icon .
Select Export to "Data Hub."
Give your export a Name for organizational purposes.
Determine the layers to include in the export.
Give your export a Tag or Description for organizational purposes.
Select "Export Data."
The export may take a few minutes to process before being available for download.
To download report files:
Requested exports are available in your Data Hub. (https://portal.urbansdk.com/datahub/datasets)
Open Data Hub to review your available exports.
Select the export you want to download.
Select "Download."
Traffic Speed Data exports are currently only available in CSV format.
Exports include geometry, roadway characteristics and speed metrics.
Review the Traffic Speed Data Specification for more information on the speed data attributes available in the report.
Saved Reports in Workspace
Save your report to Workspace to post traffic calming implementation analysis.
Your report will be saved by Name, Date Created, Category.
You have the ability to customize the report name, description and category.
Reports are listed first by the most recently created in the last 60 days.
